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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 25 2015, @04:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

Reuters reports that the US Supreme Court has ruled 6 - 3 in favor of the nationwide availability of tax subsidies that are crucial to the implementation of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, handing a major victory to the President. It marked the second time in three years that the high court ruled against a major challenge to the law brought by conservatives seeking to gut it. "Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them," wrote Chief Justice Roberts, who added that nationwide availability of the credits is required to "avoid the type of calamitous result that Congress plainly meant to avoid." The ruling will come as a major relief to Obama as he seeks to ensure that his legacy legislative achievement is implemented effectively and survives political and legal attacks before he leaves office in January 2017.

Justice Antonin Scalia took the relatively rare step of reading a summary of his dissenting opinion from the bench. "We really should start calling the law SCOTUScare," said Scalia, referencing the court's earlier decision upholding the constitutionality of the law (SCOTUS is the acronym for the Supreme Court of the United States).


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:34PM (#201100)

    This is the thing. It *depends* on where you go.

    Most of the people I have been dealing with are willing to give me a break if I do 3 things. I pay up front with cash (or something close), no credit card, and no insurance. If you are dealing with a conglomerate company their prices are determined by the head office (meaning no breaks). But if you are dealing with a 'mom and pop' practice you can get some good discounts. They *reallllllly* do not like dealing with insurance. You think you hate it? They deal with it day in and day out.

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